Another soldier, after describing, in a matter-of-fact way, some of the discomforts of life in the trend ber of the family who would be required to fight, three others were in the firing line. If any of them had to be killed, he hoped it would be himself.
Not only the soldiers but the older generation are capable of rising to heroic heights, as witness this letter of @ father in reply to. the announcement of hie 00's eyes and a genuine patriotic pride death. "It is with teare in
that I learn from you how my eon gave his life for his country and for God. His mother (he is one of twelve children) and I regard him as a holy sacrifice in the ea tional cauee and a pledge of the ultimate victory now in your hands."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.